Mk8 Lynx Helicopter and HMS Dragon

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/30/2014 at 17:35 • Filed to: planelopnik, helicopterlopnik

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HMS Dragon's Mk8 Lynx Helicopter conducting day into night flying serial. As part of the sortie it fired all of it's 60 counter measure flares as the sun set over the ship. This photo, by Dave Jenkins, is one of the winners of Royal Navy Peregrine Trophy photography awards.

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Svend > ttyymmnn 05/30/2014 at 17:55

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Awesome picture. I do love the Westland Lynx, very fast (held the world record for approximately thirty years as the fastest helicopter, only recently broken by what I myself would not call a helicopter) and agile as the video from The British Army Air Corps will show.

KirkyV > ttyymmnn 05/30/2014 at 17:57

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How... Draconic.

(I can't decide which ship of the Daring-class has my the best name. Daring 's good, Dragon 's good, Dauntless is good, and I can't help but like Duncan .)

mr2gud2u > Svend 05/30/2014 at 18:10

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That is amazing. What holds the record now?

Svend > mr2gud2u 05/30/2014 at 18:32

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The Sikorsky X2 holds the title now (unofficially, though I have heard it was made official around 2011-12 at considerable speed difference).

http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/s…

As you can see, it's not what I'd call a helicopter in the conventional sense with two over head rotors and one rear facing propelling the aircraft forward rather than the overhead rotors themselves.

spanfucker retire bitch > Svend 05/30/2014 at 18:33

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I don't know what the current fastest helicopter is, but it's not the Osprey, is it? Because I wouldn't consider that a helicopter either.

Svend > spanfucker retire bitch 05/30/2014 at 18:35

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The Osprey is a very grey area I think but ye', it isn't the holder.

Svend > KirkyV 05/30/2014 at 18:39

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Of the Type 45 names, Daring, Dauntless, Diamond, Dragon, Defender and Duncan. I think Daring and Dauntless are the most British and Defender probably the best.

KirkyV > Svend 05/30/2014 at 18:50

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Oooh, that's a nasty typo in my first post. Anyway, I'm with you on Daring and Dauntless being the most British, but Defender isn't my favourite. For me, it's between Dragon, Dauntless and Daring. Probably Dragon, 'cause I like somewhat weird ship names, ideally with multiple words involved. But not any of this 'George S. Whatever' nonsense. I'm talking all out, Alistair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks and Halo-style weirdness, like Nostalgia for Infinity and Pillar of Autumn.

ttyymmnn > Svend 05/30/2014 at 23:41

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You might find this article from Air & Space Magazine interesting:

Hot-Rod Helicopters: There's just no way to add 100 mph to the speed of a helicopter. Or is there?

Svend > ttyymmnn 05/31/2014 at 04:19

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Thanks, that's an interesting article. I've read something similar before.

The Lynx went through a lot of development to get the rotors to go so fast that progressions like this are pretty much the only way to go really, though it's stretching out of the norm of what a helicopter is.

Aircraft evolution has to keep doing just that, evolving.